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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920
L1KK RIVER PROJECT
OPPOSED BY SCIONS
PRICE-CUTTIG m
BY FRUIT
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Oregon. Protest Presented to
Secretary Payne.
Convention Is Opened by Ore
gon Society.
In spite of the fact that newspapers have informed the public that
the prices of everything are coming down, the following are still
high, and in some cases higher since the propaganda started:
Freight arid express rates, railroad fares, newspaper advertising,
gas and telephone rates, rents and street car fares. y
Say Now Is the Time to Buy
PRIVATE DAM ' ATTACKED
ELECTION TO BE TODAY
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Cancellation or Modification of
Contract With Power Company
' Urged Upon Government.'
Gathering at Eugene Discusses
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"Washington, Dec. 2. The old ques
tion of the construction of the Link
river dam by the California & Oregon
Power company at the outlet of up
per Klamath lake, in Klamath county.
Or., was the subject of a long hearing
before Judse Barton Fayne, secretary
of the interior, today. Senator Cham
berlain and Representative Sinnott
appeared against the project as now
planned.
Senator Chamberlain urged that the
rigrhts grranted to the power company
be canceled in the interest of public
policy and Representative Einnott de
manded drastic modifications of the
grant.
'power Company Represented.
President Mortoneen of the Pelican
Bay Lumber company r intended for
the construction of the dam by the'
government instead of private inter
ests. Herman Ffleger of San Fran
cisco appeared for the power company.
The project contemplated irrigation
of 150,000 acres of desert land, more
than 50,000 acres already having been
furnished with water. Funds were
not available, it was said at the in
terior department, to build a dam
at Klamath lake necessary to regu
late the flow of water from the lake
to irrigate the remaining 100,000
acres.
Line Accepts Original Offer.
Several years ago the California
& Oregron Power company offered to
build the dam at an estimated cost
of $230,000 and to give the govern
ment the right to regulate the flow
of water, the company's benefit be
ing a more even flow at its power
plant 50 miles below the dam..
Former Secretary Lane accepted
the offer and the company has al
ready spent $125,000 on the project.
Recently residents on the Klamath
project and citizens of Klamath Falls,
Or., decided that the government
should take over the project and that
the dam should be built with gov
ernment money. The Klamath Falls
chamber of commerce appointed a
committee to investigate the situation
and its findings were conveyed to
Secretary Payne by Senator Chamber,
lain and r jpresentative Sinnott today.
Secretary Payne took the matter un
der advisement.
HEW. WM OPPOSED
COMMISSIONER. WOULD COM
PLETE ROADS NOW BUILT.
.Plan Proposed to Connect All Ar
teries or Traffic Before
Starting Others.
OLTMPIA, Wash., Dec. 2. (Spe
cial.) Xo new highways will be es
tablished by the 1921 legislature if
recommendations are followed as
made In Commissioner Allen's bien
nial report of highway operations for
thi3 year, and last. The report shows
that the state now has a system of
20 highways, counting approximately
2076 miles exclusive of sections in
cluded in the corporate limits of
cities and towns. Of this total 19.44
miles are listed as improved and
1031 unimproved.
The position of the state highway
commission is that this system should
be at least more nearly completed
and joined before t ie state adds any
additional sections of prospective
roadway.
The highway icommissioner also
- recommends that plans and specifica
j . tions for any improvement done or
bridges or culverts built on the state
' highway system by counties be first
approved by the commission. Other
recommendations are that revenues
from all sources for state highway
purposes be placed In a single fund,
which would consolidate the automo
bile license revenue and state high
way funds now used for highway im
provement. That maintenance of primary high
ways be placed under supervision of
- the state highway commission with
- an addec appropriation is also ad
vised. LAV AMENDMENT URGED
Official Declares Inheritance Tax
Should Reach Foreigners.
SALEM, ' Or.. Dec. 2. (Special.)
That the inheritance lax law now. in
effect in Oregon should be so amend
ed that its taxing powers will reach
the holdings of all foreign corpora
tions whose assets consist wholly or
"in part of real and personal property
within the state, was recommended
In a letter prepared today by O. P.
Tloff. state treasurer.
The letter containing the recom
mendation was addressed to Miss
Cornelia Marvin, state librarian, who
is chairman o"f the committee ap
pointed, recently by Governor Olcott
i to gather data on state systems of
taxation and ways and means for
raising more revenue.
JURY RELEASES I. W. W.
Present Doctrines of Organization
Issue In Case.
EVERETT. Wash.. Dec. 2. Walter
Smith, accused of violating the state
syndicalism law, was acquitted in
superior court today by a jury which
took the case late yesterday. Smith
was found guilty in the Chicago
I. W. W. cases, when William Hay
wood was convicted, and was re
leased on bail
He admitted membership in the
I. W. W.. the present, doctrines of
that organization being the pojnt at
Issue.
THE STAGE.
Mr. Walter B. Gilbert, stage direc
tor of the Baker theater, is conduct
ing a 12 weeks' course in dramatle
art. Call Mr. 'Corry, Main 6475, for
further information. Adv.
If you're looking for a diamond,
see FrledlanSer's magnificent collec
tion at 310 Washington street, be
tween Fifth and Sixth. Adv.
f aullne Frederick, In - drflmntle aft nation from "The L,ovea of LettT."
which open at the Star theater tomorrow. '
TODAY'S FILM FEATPRES t
Rlvoll William Christy Ca-
banne's "The Stealers." f
Liberty Wallace Peld, "Always
Audacious."
Columbia Robert W. Chambers'
"The Restless Sex."
Peoples Billie Burke, "The
Frisky Mrs. Johnson."
Majftsticj Elaine Hammerstein,
"The Point of View."
Star Madge Kennedy, "The
Truth."
Circle Dorothy Dalton, "Halt
. an Hour."
Globe Viola Dana, "Black
mail." L
OXDON fogs, mists and the cus
tomary downpour of rain are all
picturized in the picture dom
ing to the Star theater tomorrow,
"The Loves of Letty," which stars
beautiful Pauline Frederick. The
photoplay was adapted from Sir Ar
thur Wing Pinero's well known stage
success of the same title. Frank
Lloyd, who directed the picture, took
the exterior of a cafe at night. Stu
dio lamps placed a,t either side of the
scene were flashed off and on to de
pict the glare naturally coming from
passing autos and street lamps. A
complicated series of pipes over the
set sent a very light spray through
the air, creating one of the most
'natural and finest imitations of fog
and mist ever screened. The -story
concerns characters who operate in
British finance and an exact replica
of the Royal Exchange of London ap
pears In the photoplay. Letty's first
encounter with the man she loves is
in front of the exchange, during a
violent rainstorm. There is no mist
or fog in that scene, but a steady and
unremitting downpour, which splashes
on the sidewalks with reality and
fills the gutters and puddles to over
flowing. .
Screen Gossly.
Comedy often finds Its way Into a
play by accident. There is a laugh
in "Nineteen and Phyllis" where
Charles Ray juggles with a silk hat
and finally drops it, with sad results.
This amusing happening came about
by Ray putting the hat on during re
hearsal; it slipped and was hopelessly
marred. Straightaway he converted
it into an incident of the story. It
gets one of the biggest laughs in the
picture.
The rumor that Doris May and Wal
lace MacDonald have been secretly
married has broken out again, but is
denied by the parties.
Under the name of Anna Zacsek,
YULE CHEER DISCUSSED
WELFARE BODIES TAKE STEPS
TO PROVIDE FOR NEEDY.
Christmas Giving Among Portland
Poor Is Being Systematized So
That All Will Benefit.
Representatives from more than 20
organizations in the city, interested
in bringing Christmas cheer to the
needy families of Portland, met yes
terday afternoon with the Confiden
tial Exchange. Each organization told
of its plans for Christmas giving.
Lists of names of those who are to
be made happy on Christmas day will
be sent to the exchange so that the
lists may be checked and no duplica
tions occur. It is hoped by this sys
tem to reach all the needy in me city.
Among the individuals and organi-
zation representatives present, were
Thomas J. Swivel, who gives an an
nual Christmas dinner to 300 children
and 150 mothers; Parent-Teacher
council. Young Men's Christian asso
ciation. Young Women's Christian as
sociation, Portland Realty board,
publio welfare bureau. Daddies' club,
Grotto. Elks, Telegram. Methodist
Deaconess' association. Colored Wom
en's council. Visiting Nurses' associa
tion. Salvation Army, Ad club. Wid
ow's pension bureau. Pacific Coast
Rescue and Portective association.
Central Labor council. Women's Chris
tian Temperance union.
The headquarters of the Confidential
Exchange will be the Press club, be
ginning Monday.
THOUSANDS TO SEE SANTA
Bend to Have Community Christ
mas Eve Celebration. .
BENT-, Or., Dec. 2. (Special.) A
thousand children will be entertained
hv Santa Clau at the community
Christmas-eve celebration to be held
here at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium.
Children of the Presbyterian. Epis-I
copal. Christian, Methodist and Cath
olic churches will take part in the
programme, which will have as an
additional feature a concert by the
Shevlin-Hixsort band. E. H. Branden
burg, secretary of the Bend Y. M. C.
A., heads the committee in charge. .
Realty Co-operation Topic.
"Co-operative real estate advertis
ing as a means of increasing, real es
tate sales." will be the subject dis
cused by S. E. Hege of Spokane,
Wash., at the regular luncheon of the
Portland realty board at the grill
room of the Portland hotel today. W.
B. Shively, chairman of the legal com
mittee, will speak on a legal topic.
Frank Upshaw will be chairman of
the day.
Filipinos Oppose Prohibition.
MANILA, P. I., Dec. 2. The joint
committee of the senate and house, '
appointed at the last session of the j
legislature to study the liquor queu-
her real cognomen, Olga Gray will be
starred In a series of Ibsen on the
New York stage. -
According to reports from the east,
where she is viBiting, Mabel Normand
is in poor health and has been under
treatment.
Bill Hart's "double" in many pic
tures, Howard Millcrest, was killed
by falling from a horse In Arizona
while filming a scene for the picture,
"Custer's Last Stand," with the Mar,
shall Nella,n company.
' Mildred Marsh,
noted Mae Marsh,
ma actress, was
day to Tgnacio
sister of the more
and herself a cine
married the other
John Forester, a
member of one of the oldest Spanish
families in southern California.
.
Agues Johnston, writer of a num
ber of Charles Ray's more successful
plays, has been signed to write
stories'for Viola Dana.
One million dollars will be spent
by William Fox on the enlargement
of his Hollywood studios, which al
ready fill more than gtwo full city
blocks.
Helen ' Rockwell, formerly a dra
matic writer on a New York -newspaper,
has cast in her lot with the
movies and is writing for Allan
D wan.
Louis J. Gasnier. who sprang Into
fame with his direction of Otis Skin
ner in "Kismet' has begun- another
entitled "Good Women." It will mark
Rosemary Theby's debut as a star.
Mary Pickford's next picture will
not be directed by Frances Marion,
who feels the need of a rest. Miss
Marion wrote the story, however.
David Kirkland will direct.
It now appears that the report of
an operation upon Tom Santschi was
erroneous. The truth was even more
serious. Santschi's malady, appendi
citis, had reached such an advanced
stage before discovery that an opera
tion would have been perilous and the
surgeons had been draining the in
fected part in preparation for the use
of the knife. The star was very close
to the border. He may now recover
without resorting to surgery.
Ultra-violet rays used In making
movies have created a new malady
among stars and directors. The strong
lights so affect the eyes that it is
feared some of the victims may have
to retire from their vocation.
One of the Fox Sunshine comedy
girls, Alta Allan, won the heart of
her director, Hampton del Ruth, and
they were married on Thanksgiving
day.
tion, has prepared a report against
the passage of the prohibition law-ln
the Philippines. It was announced
today. The report says that there is
no necessity for prohibition as the
liquor business in the Philippines de
clined slightly in volume last year.
$11 Electric
Heaters . . .
$52 Electric Per
colator Sets
$48.00
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EUGENE7 Or., Dec. 2. Fruit grow
ers from all parts of Oregon met here
this afternoon for the S3d annual con
vention of the Oregon State Horticul
tural society. The sessions will con- ;
tinue until Saturday nifcht. Features
of the convention will be a banquet
at the Hotel Osborn tomorrow night
and a visit to the big plant of the
Eugene Fruit Growers' association in
the afternoon.
Election of officers will also be held
tomorrow afternoon.
The meeting was called to order
this afternoon by J. O. Holt, presi
dent of the' association. A. M. Spang
ler,. president of the city council, de
livered an address of welcomS in the
absence of Mayor Peterson, and re
sponses were made by Henry E.
Dosch of Portland and C A. Parks of
Salem, president of the state board
of horticulture.
"The fruit industry of this valley
has been to a large extent centralized
and has therefore developed in a sys
tematic way," said President Holt in
his annual address. "On the whole,
fruit growing, has been profitable
during the last two or three years.
This season prices opened up at a
very high level, but like those of
other commodities have been obliged
to come down. This downward move
ment has gathered such force that
there seems to be nothing to do but
stand aside and let price-cutting take
its course, as buyers cannot be
tempted with any quotations on a
falling market.
"However, there is a growing ten
dency on .the part of growers to take
into their own tiands the marketing
of their products, and if . combina
tions of growers can be made suffi
ciently strong and, are properly man
aged, this situation will De met be
fore it becomes ruinous."
Mr. Holt emphasized the need of
co-operative effort in the production
and marketing of Oregon products.
He also urged the need of greater
care in culture, referring to the nu
merous orchards In, the valley with a
decrepit and unsightly appearance.
Portland Hibernians Elect.
Officers were elected "Wednesday
night by division No. st the Ancient
Order of Hibernians and will be' in
stalled at the first meeting in Jan
uary. The new officers are: , Presi
dent, John R. Murphy; vice-president,
George D. Haller; financial secretary,
T. R. Magulgan; recording secretary,
Frank Mallon; treasurer, Thomas
Ward; sergeant-at-arms, Thomas P.
Doherty; sentinel. J. F. McGrath;
standing committee, P. J. Jones, chair
man; D. J. McLoughlin, E. J. Moore,
Thomas Tuohey and James Callahan.
Claims of Miners Allowed.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2 Awards
of
$2,357,491, ba&ed on claims amounting
to $15,827,429, were made up to No
vember 27 by the War Minerals Re
lief commission of the Bureau of
Mines, according to an announcement
today by Secretary of Interior Payne.
The commission has but 83 cases left
to consider and the amount asked is
$802,703.
Grangers to Initiate.
Evening Star grange will meet to
morrow at its hall. East Eightieth and
Division streets. The morning session
will be given over to Initiations and
business. At noon men of the grange
will serve dinner At the afternoon
programme, staring at 1:45 o'clock, A.
F. Flegel will speak on the city zon
ing problem. There will bp a violin
One Electric Store
rices Are -Lower
Special Sale
Friday, Saturday
and Monday
$9.9
$10 Electric
Irons
Lowest Prices
ON
Electric Waffle Irons'
Electric Curling Irons
Electric Heating Pads
Electric Vibrators
Electric Toasters
Sewing Machine Motors
?2.00
for. . .
Electric Light Globes, 10,
A Box of Five for. x.
Electric Christmas , Tree Lighting Outfits
, Ready to Attach to an Electric Light Socket
8-Light Outfit Complete: .$3.00
16-Light Outfit Complete, $6.00
24-Light Outfit Complete .i..$9.00
Only a Few Sets Left at These Low Prices
We Repair Xntas Tree Lighting Outfits
Evinrude Electric Store
Evinrude Motors Electrical Supplies Marshall 1765
211 Morrison, Near First Look for the Sign, "Electric"
Open Until 9 P. M. Saturday Nights
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solo by Marvel Newman and readings
by Ethelwyn .Kelly. Election of offi
cers will be held before adjournment.
TROUT EGG TAKE GOOD
Deputy Fish AVarden Reports That
Conditions Are Excellent.
The total take of eastern brook
trout eggs at Elk lake will amount
to at least 8,000.000 eggs,, according
to Pearl Lynes, superintendent of the
Tumalo hatchery at Bend. A. E.
Eurghduff, state game warden, re
ceived this word from Mr. Lynes yes
terday. The take up to December 1 was
6 250,000. he said, and the eggs are in
better condition than ever before. The
total of the take will be about the
same as that of last season.
Three feet of snow has fallen at Elk
lake, and the eggs are carried, in cans
on the backs of the assistants to the
"eyeing" station at Little Lava lake,
about 12 miles distant.
Fugitive Youth Caught.
Alfred Lyons, aged 17, who recently
escaped from a reformatory at Cheha
lis, Wash., was caught in the act of
robbing the grocery store of D. I Poin
itexter. 443 Golrlsmith avenue, at an
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Flashlights
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15, 25, 40-watt. . . .35
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Your Clothing
BECAUSE: When cancelled ORDERS have been
absorbed at present reductions, PRICES WILL
SURELY ADVANCE
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Use My Stairway
PORTLAND'S ORIGINAL
UPSTAIRS CLOTHIER
Upstairs, Broadway at Alder
early hour yesterday morning by Pa
trolmen Sanders and Thurber. The
youth, it is alleged,' had broken
through a window and was stealing
a quantity of goods when the police
intercepted him. He waa booked at
police headquarters on a burglary
charge. ' '
Damage Sum to Be Scf.
A special commission soon will be
appointed to recommend the exact
settlement In the case of the
North Portland Box company against
the schooner Ecola for $18,000
loss claimed
by
the box com-
AUCTION
PORTLAND REMEDIAL
LOAN ASSOCIATION
Tuesday, December 7,
AT
394 Stark Street, Near iOth
J. F. WILSON, Auctioneer
The third annual sale to be given by the Portland Remedial
Loan Association offers the people of Portland an opportunity
to buy many articles of value at comparatively low prices.
Here is a partial list of unredeemed goods that will be offered
for sale: - ' -
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Kodaks, Musical Instruments,
Scotch Bagpipes, Surveyors' Instruments, Elliott-Fisher Bill
ing Machine, Remington Wahl Adding Machine, Sealskin,
Jacket, Columbia Grafonola, Stradivara Phonograph, Oddfel
low's Uniform,' .Violins and Household Furniture. x
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CARRIE MYERS HERRMAN, Manager
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PORTLAND REMEDIAL LOAN ASSOCIATION
394 STARK STREET
and the CREAM
of the world's best
CLOTHING from
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pany to have been caused when
the craft, as it was launched from
the Standifer yards, smashed into log
rafts moored nearby. Judge Wolver
ton of the United States district court
rendered a decision that set the dam
ages roughly at 60-per cent of the
sum claimed and the commission will
name the exact amount.
Building Permits Decrease.
EUGENE, Or., Dee. 2. (Special.)
Building permits calling for an ex
penditure of $92,829 Were issued in
Eugene during the month of Novem
ber, according to a report of W. H.
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This is less than, the estimated cost
of buildings for which permits were
taken out during the month previous.
Rate Hearing Planned.
EUGENE, Or.. Dec. 2. (Special.)
O. H. Foster, city attorney, went to
Salem yesterday to confer with mem
bers of the state public service com
mission regarding the application of
the Mountain States Power company
for an increase of rates for gas in
Eugene. The company has filed its
application and. a hearing is expected
to be held soon.
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